A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry.

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Great Poems

Votes PoemAuthor

3072InvictusWilliam Ernest Henley

1570IfRudyard Kipling

1114I Loved YouAlexander Pushkin

646Love Sonnet XVIIPablo Neruda

510The Road not TakenRobert Frost

487Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe

436Sonnet 116William Shakespeare

318A Dream within a DreamEdgar Allan Poe

197A Book of VersesOmar Khayyam

171She Walks in BeautyLord Byron

146Give All to LoveRalph Waldo Emerson

139When you are oldWilliam Butler Yeats

123Pleasure in the Pathless WoodsLord Byron

110The Unseen PlaymateRobert Louis Stevenson

105Life is but a DreamLewis Carroll

98Admit It and Change EverythingRumi

96Because She Would Ask MeChristopher Brennan

83Sonnet 18William Shakespeare

70Love's SecretWilliam Blake

68How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)Elizabeth Barrett Browning

65O Me! O Life!Walt Whitman

55UlyssesAlfred, Lord Tennyson

52He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenWilliam Butler Yeats

52IthacaC.P. Cavafy

49BirdsongRumi

45Love Sonnet XIPablo Neruda

45SongJohn Keats

44The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats

42The Gardener - 41Rabindranath Tagore

40Love Not MeJohn Wilbye

37EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti

37For Each Ecstatic InstantEmily Dickinson

36No TearsAlexander Pushkin

36RememberChristina Georgina Rossetti

36Youth and AgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge

36Life in a LoveRobert Browning

35Visible RealityRumi

34Love Sonnet XLVPablo Neruda

34Music, When Soft Voices DiePercy Bysshe Shelley

33Extinguish Thou My EyesRainer Maria Rilke

33A Moment to RememberAlexander Pushkin

26The Gardener - 40Rabindranath Tagore

26Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?Christopher Marlowe

25Now Sleeps the Crimson PetalAlfred, Lord Tennyson

25Ode: Intimations Of ImmortalityWilliam Wordsworth

25She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysWilliam Wordsworth

25The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveChristopher Marlowe

25The Rose in the Deeps of his HeartWilliam Butler Yeats

25Wondrous MomentAlexander Pushkin

24Ah, My BelovedOmar Khayyam

24Foreign LandsRobert Louis Stevenson

24Rumors from an Aeolian HarpHenry David Thoreau

24The Passionate PilgrimWilliam Shakespeare

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